Salt Lake City 







Salt Lake City 



WHERE TO GO 

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WHAT TO SEE 




ISSUED BY 

PASSENGER DEPARTMENT, 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, 

OMAHA, NEBRASKA. 



Copyrighted for 

Union Pacific Railroad Company 

by 

E. L. LOMAX, G. P. A., 

Omaha, Neb., 

1910 



€CI.A^68099 




In honor of Brigham Young and the Pioneers 



Salt Lake City 

WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO SEE 




lis the panorama of the Far West unfolds to 
the transcontinental traveler, pictures are 
presented to him that cover every scene in 
the grand gallery of Nature from awe- 
inspiring spectacles of crags and peaks in wild 
confusion to the softest scenes of pastoral beauty. 

There is no tedium in his travel; none of the 
monotony of a rush by train through a settled region 
and a succession of cities. All the way from Omaha 
to San Francisco are car-w^indow pictures of scenic 
grandeur; the Great Plains smiling under the touch 
of husbandry; the Crest of a Continent; the beds of 
primeval seas; gashes in the earth where cascades 
and waterfalls ripple and roar; vast sweeps of gray 
deserts with their phantom imagery; the vine-clad 
slopes of the Sierras; glimpses of the distant Pacific; 
and midway of all, under track and train, Utah's 
water marvel, the Great Salt Lake. 



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When one goes by way of the Overland Route, 
he is following a famous path of history — the old 
Overland Trail — that great wagon-road which fifty 
years ago was the course of 



" the restless stream 

Of human lives that surged and rolled 
Across the world in search of gold." 

if all the pathos and heroism of the old days on that 
trail could be told, the tale would be almost endless. 
There were deaths along it — God only knows how 
many — and want and hardship, and every step of 
the way the savagery of Nature and men contended 
against it; but, heedless of all, the pilgrims of the 
West moved over it with their long processions of 
white-covered wagons, conquering the deserts year 
by year, and storming the mountain barriers, until 
the desolation of half a continent was driven away, 
and the country beyond the Missouri was terra in- 
cognita no longer. 

The traveler enters Utah through 
ECHO Echo Canon where the winds and 

CANON the waters have carved out the 

rugged and picturesque for ages. 
The waters and the train descend together into the 
dusky depths and, winding in and out through many 
miles of changing scenes, emerge at last into the 
famed valley of the Great Salt Lake. All along the 
way are Nature's cathedrals, and, in the midst of 
them, to remind us. perhaps, of the sin in the world, 
is the Devil's Slide — a trough of solid rock tossed 
into form when the mountains were upheaved. 



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After the canon comes Ogden, the 
OGDEN second city of Utah — the meeting- 

place of the Union and Southern 
Pacific and Oregon Short Line Railroads. The city 
dates its history back to the time of the completion 
of the first trans-continental railroad, and lies half on 
the mountain side and half in the valley at the 
junction of the Weber and Ogden Rivers. 

Cleaving the Wasatch, from al- 
OGDEN most the center of the city, is 

CANON Ogden Cafion through which, for 

fifteen miles, a broad boulevard 
follows the windings of the roaring river. This 
cafion is the most beautiful in Utah. At various 
altitudes are resorts where camping, boating, fishing 
and hunting are enjoyed, and where the hotels are 
famed for their chicken dinners and the cookery of 
trout fresh from the stream. Automobiles go the 
whole length of this boulevard, and electric cars 
leave the Union Depot every twenty minutes for 
the canon. It is only a travel-hour from Ogden to 
Salt Lake and the pictures of rural home-life and 
fertile fields along the way are framed by the 
mountains and the sea. 

The traveler will be greeted, at 
AN ARTISTIC Salt Lake, by a new four hundred 
STATION thousand dollar passenger station 

of the design of the French Renais- 
sance, and will be shown into a waiting room, the 
like of which for decoration and illustration there 
is not anywhere. The present superstructure is 



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the central portion of the great building that is to 
be, and every convenience and comfort is at hand. 
The feature of the station is the waiting room, and 
the traveler will find it well worth his while to 
study its artistic interior. This room is 130 feet long 
and more than half as wide, and has a vaulted ceiling 
44 feet high. The entire floor is laid in a pattern of 
ceramic and the side walls are wainscot with encaus- 
tic tile. All of the decorations are in perfect harmony, 
and on the ceiling in softest colors are interwoven the 
Sego Lily and the Beehive, the emblems of Utah. It 
was the purpose of the builders to preserve in this 
room the scenes of the vanished West and com- 
memorate important events in Utah History. On the 
west side are five arched art-glass windows specially 
designed from original sketches. The central one 
illustrates modern transportation by train across the 
Great Salt Lake, and the others the pony express, an 
overland coach, the buffalo, and a modern smelter. 

But the large mural paintings in 
TWO GREAT the tympanum arch panel at the 
PAINTINGS north and south ends of the room 

are the crow^ning glory of the dec- 
orations. These are master-pieces of coloring and 
present the scenes of two tremendous events in the 
history of Far Western civilization — the arrival of the 
first band of pioneers in the valley of the Great Salt 
Lake, and the driving of "The Last Golden Spike" 
to complete the first trans-continental railroad. One 
ended the epoch of the wilderness and ushered in 
the period of the pioneer; the other marked the 







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close of wagon transportation and the dawn of the 
era of steam and steel. The pictures are true to 
nature and their portraiture is from life. They do 
more than depict the scenes of history for the artists 
have painted into them the indescribable something 
that comes only by inspiration — the life, the spirit, 
that makes you half wonder if the scenes before you 
are not real. 

The painter has touched the pio- 
THE neer picture with the spirit of the 

PIONEERS moment w^hen the white-covered 

OF 1847 ox-draw^n w^agons of the First Com- 

pany were halted at the mouth of 
Emigration Cafion, and Brigham Young exclaimed, as 
he recognized the distant lake and the arid valley 
that he had seen in his dreams, " This is the place; 
drive on! ' 

The other picture is of the scene 
THE DRIVING at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 
OF THE 1869— the wedding-day of the 

GOLDEN Pacific Railroads — the day upon 

SPIKE which "The Last Golden Spike" 

was driven to complete the first 
all-rail route from ocean to ocean. In the center 
stands steaming the old funnel-stack engine. Number 
60, that was present at the ceremonies, and, before 
it, sledge in hand, Leland Stanford ready to drive the 
spike. Grouped around Stanford are the men whose 
mighty minds conceived and completed the great 
undertaking. Facing him, on the right, are Sidney 
Dillon, Charles Crocker, and Oakes Ames, in the 



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order named, and, on his left, are C. P. Huntington — 
the man with the cape — and, next to him, with arms 
folded, Charles Hopkins. 

From the time that it was a little 
THE OLD huddle of wagons in the wilder- 

SALT LAKE ness, more than three generations 
CITY ago. Salt Lake City has been almost 

constantly in the public eye. The 
beauty of its situation and environment; the charms 
of its scenery and its proximity to many natural 
w^onders, have given it distinction. 

The present-day city is largely the work of cre- 
ative forces set in motion by the mining and railroad 
development around it during the last decade, and 
the old Salt Lake with its crude homes and fading 
land-marks — the one around which the romance of 
history clings — has almost passed away. Old Salt 
Lake has been w^ritten up and dow^n and pictured so 
often and so well, that to dress it now anew in print 
would be an impossible task. But it is still the subject 
of so much human interest that the visitor will linger 
to listen to the heroic story of early days, and will 
see in fancy, as the story unfolds, every scene in the 
wonderful moving picture of the West. 

It was a speck in the desert — a light in the wilder- 
ness to the tides of humanity that flowed across the 
continent "In the days of '49." Since it w^as born 
the map of half of our land has been made. It was 
a sturdy infant when Marshall discovered gold, and 
in its teens w^hen Denver was born. It saw the first 
pony express rider on his dash to the Pacific and 



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was a station on the overland stage line. The trail 
its founders made marked out the way for the first 
railroad across the plains, and its toilers strung the 
wires and poles for the first transcontinental tele- 
graph, and built the last section of the Union Pacific. 

Let us turn now from the old Salt 
THE NEW Lake to the new — the splendid 

SALT LAKE realization of every dream of the 
CITY founders. All of the forbidding 

scenes around it when it sprang 
from the womb of the desert, have been changed by 
the touch of husbandry into pictures of plenty, and 
where once were the crude homes of the pioneers, 
now tower the skyscrapers of a modern city. 

Let us tour the city together, stopping first to 
visit the Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall, 
the most interesting and important structures of the 
Mormon Church. These are located at Temple 
Square, a ten-acre park near the business center. 
The square is surrounded by a high wall within 
which are clusters of trees and an artistic arrange- 
ment of walks and drives. 

On April 6, 1853, Brigham Young 
THE TEMPLE laid the corner stone, and forty 

years afterwards, on April 6, 1893, 
the temple was dedicated. The dedication cere- 
monies were witnessed by the largest concourse of 
people ever assembled in Utah, many of whom came 
from foreign lands; during the three ceremonial 
weeks more than 100,000 passed through the build- 
ing. The architecture is composite and the building 




The Great Organ 



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is one of the most beautiful and massive in the world. 
On the tip-top of the east central spire of the Temple, 
234 feet over all, stands the golden figure of Moroni, 
sometimes called the Mormon Gabriel. The Temple 
covers an area of 21,850 feet and is built entirely of 
gray granite. It has six spires, three on the west 
and three on the east end. The thickness of the 
walls at the bottom is 9 feet and at the top 6 feet; 
the total length is 186^ feet, and the width 99 feet. 
Behind the Temple in a cluster of trees stands 
the great auditorium of the Mormons, the Tabernacle, 
celebrated far and w^ide for its peculiar form. It 
resembles the longitudinal half of a monster egg and 
is one of the curious structures of the world. The 
building is 250 feet long, 150 feet wide and 80 feet 
high and seats about 8,000 persons. Brigham Young 
built it in 1865 at a cost of $300,000. 

A broad gallery encircles three 
THE sides of the interior, and at the 

TABERNACLE open end are a series of elevated 

stands for the use of the different 
degrees of the priesthood, behind which is the great 
organ flanked by the seats of the Tabernacle Choir. 
The Tabernacle is open to visitors every secular day 
and well-informed guides are always present to 
explain its construction and illustrate, by a whisper 
and the dropping of a pin, its marvelous acoustics. 

The organ is far-famed for the 
THE GREAT beauty of its form and the range 
ORGAN of its voice. It is not the largest; 

but unquestionably is the sw^eetest- 



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toned instrument of its kind in the world. It consists 
of six complete organs and contains 5,000 pipes 
ranging in length from one-fourth of an inch to 32 
feet. The organ was built in early days by Mormon 
artisans and largely from Utah materials; but has 
since been revoiced and greatly improved. 

In the southwest corner of the 
ASSEMBLY square is Assembly Hall, a Gothic 

HALL structure having its own organ and 

containing a large auditorium. This 
is used for overflow meetings, Sunday school con- 
ferences, and for other gatherings that do not require 
the seating capacity of the great Tabernacle. At 
"conference time," when the Saints from far and near 
assemble semi-annually to see and hear the higher 
priesthood, many uses for this building are found. 

North of the Temple, and con- 
THE ANNEX nected with it by an underground 

passage, is a building of white 
stone and Moorish architecture, called the Annex. 
This is a sort of preparation place for those who 
have work to do in the Temple and for those who go 
there to be married or baptized. 

The former homes of Brigham 
THE HOMES Young are grouped around the 
OF BRIGHAM Eagle Gate, one block east of 
YOUNG Temple Square. The Lion and 

Beehive Houses are on either side 
of the general offices of the Mormon Church and are 
so called because over the portals of one is a 
recumbent lion by the Sculptor Ward, and sur- 



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mounting the other is a beehive; these symbols of 
strength and industry having long been the emblems 
of the Mormon Church. 

The Eagle Gate spans State Street, 
THE and was built in 1839 to control 

EAGLE GATE the entrance to City Creek Canon, 

then the source of the city wood 
supply. The arch springs from four stone pedestals 
upon which a beehive bears an eagle posed for 
flight. The eagle was carved by an early day artist 
and is a fine specimen of wood-craft. It has looked 
for fifty years down the longest street in Utah, which 
extends south from the gate, without a crook or a 
turn, for twenty-two miles. 

A few steps beyond the Eagle 
THE TOMB Gate on a grassy hillside rest the 

OF BRIGHAM remains of Brigham Young and a 
YOUNG number of his wives. 

Fort Douglas, Salt Lake's beauti- 
FORT ful military suburb, lies four miles 

DOUGLAS east of the business center at the 

base of the Wasatch. The view 
from the garrison is regarded by travelers as one of 
surpassing loveliness. It takes in the entire city, the 
island-dotted surface of the Great Salt Lake, Saltair 
Beach, the smelters at Garfield, and the verdant valley 
of the Jordan for forty miles to the south. The car 
line to the Fort passes through the best residential 
portion of the city, and, on the way, may be seen 
the homes of many millionaires. Military maneuvers 
occur daily and are always interesting. To see 



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these maneuvers, the grand panorama of the valley 
and the beautiful arrangement of the garrison, make 
the trip well worth while, and most visitors include 
this in their sight-seeing program. 

There are numerous shady parks 
OTHER where summer coolness is found, 

SIGHTS TO and, here and there about the city, 

BE SEEN may still be seen many of the old 

homes of the pioneers and the 
early leaders of the Church. The Salt Palace, glitter- 
ing with crystals from the Great Salt Lake, stands at 
the foot of Main Street, and, north of the city, are 
hot and warm springs which would be far-famed for 
their baths and curative properties were they located 
in some difficult-to-reach place. The house in which 
Maude Adams was born is only a short distance from 
the business center, and, near the Temple, under the 
label of the All-Seeing Eye, is the great Cooperative 
store of the Mormons — the largest mercantile insti- 
tution in the West. 

The beauty and breadth of Salt Lake's streets, 
with their trimmings of trees and running streams, 
have long been the admiration of travelers. These 
connect with canon drives that lead through pictur- 
esque scenes to never-melting snows, and shaded 
roads that thread the fruitful valley of the Jordan. 

The Utah Light and Railway Com- 
SIGHT-SEEING pany operates a system of sight- 
CARS seeing cars that afford an inex- 

pensive and comfortable means of 
covering the principal points of interest in Salt Lake; 



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and this service is recommended to those whose time 
for going about is limited. The cars, in charge of 
well-informed guides, start from the leading hotels 
at 10:00 o'clock in the morning and 2:00 o'clock in 
the afternoon. 

Eleven miles west of the city, and 
UTAH'S easily reached by rail, lies the 

DEAD SEA Great Salt Lake, Utah's star attrac- 

tion — the grand, gloomy, peculiar 
feature of the topography. This water-wonder has 
always been more or less of a mystery to man- 
kind. Geologists trace it back to Lake Bonneville — 
an inland sea larger than Lake Huron — that one 
primordial day washed over Utah and, ages ago, 
broke down its mountain barriers and flowed away 
to the Pacific, The remnant of that sea, reduced by 
centuries of evaporation, now lies dead and desolate 
out in the desert. Vague accounts of the lake date 
back to the sixteenth century; but its real discovery 
is credited to Jim Bridger, who first saw it from the 
south of Bear River, in 1824. 

There is a fascination about the lake that few 
can resist. It is so weird, so gloomy and silent. If 
solitude has the charms that sages have seen on its 
face, here they are intensified. Nothing lives in it; 
nothing can live in it; but the gulls, that drifted 
thither from the Pacific perhaps, no one knows when, 
make their home on its islands and ride on its bosom. 
The lake has no outlet; but many streams flow into 
it and all of these are fresh. The waters are salt, 
almost to saturation, and are of opaline green. Ordin- 



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arily its surface is placid, and then it is a looking- 
glass for the mountains around it; but. when storms 
come, the waters rage as they do in mid-ocean and 
no craft can withstand their fury. 

The area of the lake is given at twenty-five hun- 
dred square miles; but the shore lines advance and 
retreat with the wet and dry cycles of the region. 
In 1843. John C. Fremont crossed dry-shod to Ante- 
lope Island, now^ eight miles from the shore. In 
1902, the low levels were again reached and the 
waters were then more than a mile within their 
present limits. 

The lake has eight mountain 
A SOLID islands, all with springs of fresh 

SALT LAKE water; and, on the w^est shore in 

the Great American Desert, where 
the waves have been swept inland by the winds, a 
sea of solid salt has been formed by centuries of 
deposition. This crystalized sea, 12 miles long by 
30 miles wide, is said to contain 380,000,000 car- 
loads of salt. Under the summer sun it is a vast 
expanse of scintillating, dazzling white, and the 
mirages, that dance and quiver in the heated air 
above it, form phantom scenes too marvelous for 
description. 

The bath in the lake and the sum- 
THE BATH IN mer sunsets will linger long in the 
THE LAKE memory of the visitor. There is 

no danger of drowning, for the 
bather floats without effort on the waves; but care 
should be taken to protect the mouth and nostrils 



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from the solution, a very little of which will produce 
strangulation. More than three hundred thousand 
people visit the lake every year, and there is not an 
insomnia sufferer who will not find in a week's bath- 
ing the specific for his ills. 

The pen that would tell of the 
SUMMER sunsets — the glorified curtain that 

SUNSETS God hangs in the sky at the close 

of every summer day— must needs 
be dipped in inks not made by mortal hands. 
They are the most gorgeous, the most marvelously 
beautiful, of all the presentations of Nature, and no 
artist, however celebrated, has ever been able to 
approach their reproduction. All that is vivid in 
coloring, all the hues of all the reds and all the tints 
and tones of rose and purple, rage in the western 
sky among gold-gilded cloud castles, and, as the sun 
sinks into the waters, softly subside; suffusing their 
dying splendors over valley and mountain and lake, 
and finally fading away into the dusk. 

The pavilion at Saltair, one of the 
SALTAIR largest of its kind in the world, 

BATHING stands out over the waters four 

RESORT thousand feet from the shore. 

The architecture is Moorish and 
the form of the main structure crescentic. On the 
second floor, under a central dome wider and longer 
than the Tabernacle, is a dancing floor that will accom- 
modate nine hundred couples, and, beneath it, a 
luncheon and lounging-room of the same proportions. 
From each side of the dome the horns of a crescent 



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bend out over the sea. The original structure long 
ago proved inadequate to accommodate the summer 
crowds, and the piling has been extended to make way 
for a Midway Plaisance, a mammoth Hippodrome, a 
great ship-restaurant, and all the other thousand and 
one things that go to make up a summer pleasure place. 
More than five hundred thousand dollars has 
already been expended upon Saltair, and every con- 
venience and comfort has been provided by the 
management, which is enterprising and holds the 
place up to the highest standard of respectability. 
There are more than twelve hundred dressing rooms 
and many times that number of bathing suits; and 
the whole cost of a trip, to and from the resort, 
including a bath, is 50 cents. 

So far, in the preparation of 
A SIDE TRIP these pages, the thought has 
TO been to deal only with the 

THE MINES historic and natural attractions 

along the way of the traveler; 
but the writer is reminded that, to a growing State 
like Utah, many are likely to come who have in 
mind a little business as well as pleasure; and. to 
these, the suggestion is made that the great mines 
of Utah lie almost at Salt Lake s door, and that in 
Bingham, Tintic. and Park City — nearby camps — 
may be seen mining and milling on a modern and 
mammoth scale. A visit to these will show the 
traveler how mountains are taken down and robbed 
of their values, and what a really great and profit- 
able industry American mining is. 




















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Whether one is bound east or 
OVER west on the Overland Route, 

THE SEA he will see the Great Salt Lake 

BY RAIL Cut-off, the stretch of track that 

spans the Great Salt Lake. From 
dry land to dry land it covers twenty miles of pile 
construction, and the traveler is carried on wheel 
and steel so far out to sea that the nearest land 
will be in the hazy distance. As an example of 
engineering, and of ingenious and substantial con- 
struction, there is nothing comparable with it any- 
where. It was a master-stroke to thus diminish 
overland distance by forty-two miles, and it cost 
$4,000,000 to do it; but what are a few millions 
when a new and wonderful scenic feature can be 
added to the attractions of a great railroad, and a 
mountain swept from the path of commerce? 

A small handful of hard commer- 
SALT LAKE cial facts may not be amiss after 
CITY IN dwelling so long on the scenic 

FIGURES glories of the City of the Saints. 

Salt Lake — our oldest frontier out- 
post ! Building account last year $8,300,000. an 
increase of $4,000,000 over previous year; bank 
clearings, $350,000,000; claims 90,000 population; 
bank deposits, $38,500,000; value of shares sold in 
mining exchange, $16,500,000; there are 16.600 
children in the schools and 500 teachers; $7,000,000 
mining dividends paid during the year; $50,000,000 
output of factories. 



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In 1900 Salt Lake was still scarcely more than an 
overgrown country village, despite the fact that it was 
then over half a century old. 

Remembering these conditions as they were such 
a short time ago, one can not but be impressed in 
going over the same ground now. If he arrives 
over the Harriman system, he alights at a new 
modern passenger station. If he comes in over the 
Gould system, he passes a handsome structure owned 
by these interests, now almost completed. He reaches 
the business center over the broad well -paved 
streets, or he can walk up over substantial sidewalks. 
Pavements and boulevards are no longer novelties. 
The paved district is being enlarged with tremen- 
dous rapidity. Sidewalks are being extended every- 
where. During 1909 over 100 miles of cement walks 
were laid. This is over five times as much as existed 
in the entire city in 1900. The waterworks system 
has been improved and extended, providing for a 
population of several hundred thousand. 

On all sides the spirit of municipal improvement 
is in the air, has been and will be. Salt Lake is "feel- 
ing its oats." The people know they have a great 
city and they are going ahead with united determina- 
tion to make it the most magnificent metropolis 
between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast. 
Millions of dollars are being spent by the city and 
millions more are being spent by individuals in the 
line of development. For all that, the general tax 
rate is not far from 1 per cent on the actual value of 
the property. This is one of the lowest tax rates in 





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the United States, and is remarkable when one con- 
siders the vast amount of municipal improvement 
which is in progress. 

No less striking has been the change in the resi- 
dence districts. Most conspicuous of the residence 
subdivisions has been Federal Heights. Here only 
three years ago was a stretch of sagebrush, although 
the ground itself is located close to the heart of the 
city. The fact that it was owned by Uncle Sam and 
formed a part of the military reservation, prevented 
its utilization for homes. The title passed to private 
ownership and the first highly improved subdivision 
in Salt Lake City sprang into being. Streets were 
graded and paved, sidewalks were laid, sewers, 
curbs, gutters, and other improvements put in, and a 
finished product was turned over to the city. Beauti- 
ful homes arose in place of sagebrush. Brigham 
Street, now a broad, well-paved boulevard, leads to 
this "crown of Salt Lake City." The development 
of Federal Heights is typical of the new Salt Lake 
spirit. 

As a result of the rapid development thus out- 
lined, there have been tremendous increases in values 
in Salt Lake City real estate. Of course, some prop- 
erties have been more favored than others, but it is 
an undisputed fact that the actual values have risen 
steadily on all property in the city. Business prop- 
erty in some parts has tripled and even multiplied 
ten times in value. Some of the property in the 
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foot, and now it is valued at over ten times that fig- 
ure. One piece of property on Third South Street, 
which was bought a few years ago for a little over 
$100 a front foot, changed hands since for $1,000 a 
front foot and is now valued at $1,500 per foot. 
And so it goes. Even in the thoroughly established 
old business centers property has doubled and 
trebled in value with successive sales. 

Residence property has shared these advances 
in almost like proportions. The well-established 
sections have gone steadily ahead in values, while 
on the outskirts there have been really sensational 
advances. It was only eight or ten years ago that 
owners of part of the ground on which Westminster 
Heights now stands sold on a basis of about $27 7 
per acre. This property is now practically sold out 
on a basis of close to $3,7 50 per acre, and the values 
are still rapidly advancing. 

One of the most significant build- 
THE ings in Salt Lake is the new home 

COMMERCIAL of the Commercial Club. Signifi- 
CLUB S cant because the maintenance in 

NEW HOME a magnificent homeof a sturdy club 

of 1,500 membership in a city like 
this means that the people are a unit for their home 
town and its prosperity — -no politics, no religion, or 
any other element allowed to interfere with the 
primal object. 

The building is a 6-story structure of an imposing 
yet homelike appearance, and in design and color- 
ing presents something entirely new to this State in 



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style of architecture. The building includes every- 
thing that can add to the comfort of club life. On 
the ground floor is a spacious and handsome rotunda 
which will serve as a lobby, and leading off from this 
will be found a most luxurious lounging room extend- 
ing almost the full length of the building. The 
offices, buffet, and check rooms occupy the remainder 
of the ground floor. The second floor is given up 
entirely to the beautiful banquet hall with the 
Governor's dining room adjoining and the kitchen 
and service department in the rear. The banquet 
hall extends two stories in height, is of striking pro- 
portions, and the pilasters and ceiling beams with 
their relief of ornamental plaster add a pleasing 
grace to the imposing interior. The decorations in 
this room are a clever combination of green and 
old rose, with the ceiling lighted in soft blues and old 
gold. The carpets and draperies are of the richest 
fabrics in old rose and green. The electric-light fix- 
tures include eight large chandeliers made up 
entirely of cut glass beads, prisms and pendants 
which will add wonderful brilliance to the room. 

The mezzanine floor will be given up entirely to 
the ladies, and includes a parlor, rest and retiring 
rooms, one large dining room and four small private 
dining rooms. The decorations and furnishings on 
this floor will be in keeping with the delicacy of design 
suggested by the architect and will add grace and 
beauty to perfect convenience. The fourth floor is 
distinctively a man's floor, being given over to billiard 
and card rooms, a library and reading room. The 



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fifth and sixth floors contain forty-one sleeping rooms 
with baths, showers, and every other conceivable 
convenience. These apartments will be handsomely 
appointed, and the variety in wall decorations, w^ood- 
worU and furniture will appeal to diverse tastes. 

The great basement under the entire building is 
so arranged that plunge baths, bowling alleys, and a 
gymnasium will be given ample space with room 
left for barber shop, storage room, refrigerator plant 
and other necessities. 

The building is equipped with an electric pas- 
senger elevator, a freight elevator and a double com- 
partment dumb waiter also operated by electricity. 

The entire cost of the building will be close to 
$250,000 with another $60,000 in furniture and 
equipment. Add to this the present value of the 
ground and we have an investment of nearly 
$400,000. 

When once installed in the new home, the pro- 
motion and publicity work of the Club will be taken 
up with a new^ zest and vigor. Much has been done 
already by the present administration in laying the 
foundation for the work of the next few years, which 
are expected to demonstrate a period of activity and 
success far greater than has ever been known before. 



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INFORMATION 



Concerning fares and routes will be furnished gladly by any 
Union Pacific representative specified below: 

ATLANTA. «A.— Candler Buildine. 121 Peachtree Street— 

A. J. 1>I'T('HKR General Agent 

BOSTON. MASS.— 176 Washington Street— 

W 1 1 . 1. A l; I ) M ASSEY New England Fr't and Pass'r Agent 

CIIK'k I \ N K. W VO.— Depot— 

I l; HKI ISCH Ticket and Freight Agent 

CIIK A«.o. ll,L.---120 Jackson Boulevard— 

W . G NKIMVER. General Agent 

CINCINNATI. OIIIU— 53 East Fourth Street- 

W. H. CONNOR General Agent 

COTNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA— 522 Broadway- 

J. C. MITCHELL City Ticket Atrent 

J. W. MAVNARD. Transfer Depot Ticket Agent 

OENVEK, C«»LO.— 935-41 Seventeenth Street— 

F.B.CHOATE General Agent 

1>ES MOINES. IOWA— 310 West Fifth Street- 

J. W. TURTLE Traveling Passenger Agent 

OETKOIT. MlCIi.— 11 Fort Street West— 

J. C. FERGUSON General Agent 

HON<; KON«. CHINA— Kings Building- 

General Passenger Agent, San Francisco Overland Route 

MOIMON. 1 EX.— 

T .1 AMiKliSON Gen. Pass'r Agent, G.,H. AS. A. R'y 

KAN>\s « 11 V. MO.— 901 Walnut Street- 

H. (.. KAILL Ass'tGen. Fr't and Pass'r Agent 

LEA\ E.\ WORTH, KAN. -Rooms 9 and 11 Leavenworth National Bank B'Id'g— 

J.J. HARTNETT General Agent 

LINCOLN, NEB.— 1044 O Street- 

E. B. SLOSSON : General Agent 

LOS ANOELES, CAL.— 557 South Spring Street— 

H. O. WILSON General Agent 

MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.— 21 South Third Street- 

H. F. CARTI;R District Passenger Agent 

NEW ORLEANS, LA.— 227 St. Charles Street— 

J . H . R. PARSONS Gen. Pass'r Agent, M. , L. & T. R'y 

NEW YORK CITY— 287 Broadway— 

J. B. DeFRIEST General Eastern Agent 

NORFOLK. NEB.— 414 Norfolk Avenue- 

W. R. PARGETER Commercial Agent 

OAKl.AM*. < A L.— Corner 13th Street and Broadway— 

11. \ KLASDEL Agent Passenger Department 

«I«UKN. I rAII---..'r,14 Washington Avenue— 

I \ . S H I : W K City Passenger and Ticket Agent 

OLYMIMV. « \SH.— PercivalDock- 

.1 ( 1M:K( IVAL Agent. O. & W. R. R. 

OMAHA. \Ki;. — 1324 Farnam Street- 

L. BKINDORFF City Passenger and Ticket Agent 

PUILAOELI'lllA, PA.— 830 Chestnut Street- 

S. V. MILBOURNE General Agent 

PITTsBl ROM, PA.— 539 Smithfield Street- 

(i. G. HERRING .<3eneral Agent 

PORTLAM*. ORE.— Third and Washington Streets- 

C W. STINGER City Ticket Agent, O. R. & N. Co. 

PIEIM.O. COLO. ---nil' Ni.rth Main Street- 

1. M. ll'lKil; Commercial Agent 

8T. .lo«.K.l'U. MO.--.-ji:> iT.iL.i- Street- 

1.1 lU'MMKR Ass't Gen. Pass'r Agent. St. J. & G. I. R'y 

8T. LOI |v, MO.— 903 Olive Street- 

■I '' 1 n\\ } General Agent 

SAClv- \ M K\ 1 o. CAL.— 1007 Second Street- 

.i\MI.-- W \1;KACK Freight and Passenger Agent 

BALI L\KK « IT\-. UTAH— 156 Main Street- 

I' K I 'K A\ District Freight and Passenger Agent 

SAN F|{ \\<ls««», CAL.— 42 Powell Street- 

S. f. HOdlH General Agent 

SAN .lOsK. «M,.— 19 North First Street— 

I . W . .\ N ( ; 1 ER Agent Passenger Department 

SEAT U.K. W ASH.— 608 First Avenue- 

K. K KI.I.IS General Agent. O. <fe W. R. R. 

SPOK A \ K. W ASH.— 603 Sprague Avenue- 

II (• MINSON General Agent, O. R. & N. Co. 

SYI»M ^ . A I «.TKALIA — Jil'itt Street- 

^ A.sl'KdII Australian Passenger Agent 

TA<OM \. W AsH.---HiTl;ii Huil.ling- 

KoHKin LKK Agent. O. & W. R. R. 

TORONTO, CAN AHA— Room 14 Janes Building- 

J. O. GOODSELL Traveling Passenger Agent 

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN— 4 Water Street- 

General Passenger Agent, San Francisco Overland Route 

E. L. LOMAX W. H. MURRAY R. S. RUBLE 

Gen. Pass'r Agent Ass't Gen. Pass'r Agent Ass't Gen. Pass' r Agent 

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